24:011:015 What hath my beloved to do in mine house,
seeing she hath
wrought
lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from
thee?
when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
24:011:016 The lord called thy name, A green
olive tree, fair, and of
goodly
fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath
kindled
fire
upon it, and the branches of it are broken.
24:011:017 For the lord of hosts, that planted
thee, hath pronounced evil
against
thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the
house
of Judah, which they have done against themselves to
provoke
me to anger in offering incense unto Baal.
24:011:018 And the lord hath given me knowledge
of it, and I know it:
then
thou shewedst me their doings.
24:011:019 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is
brought to the
slaughter;
and I knew not that they had devised devices
against
me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit
thereof,
and let us cut him off from the land of the living,
that
his name may be no more remembered.
24:011:020 But, O lord of hosts, that judgest
righteously, that triest
the
reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them:
for
unto
thee have I revealed my cause.
24:011:021 Therefore thus saith the lord of the
men of Anathoth, that
seek
thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name of the lord,
that
thou die not by our hand:
24:011:022 Therefore thus saith the lord of hosts,
Behold, I will punish
them:
the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and
their
daughters shall die by famine:
24:011:023 And there shall be no remnant of them:
for I will bring evil
upon
the men of Anathoth, even the year of their visitation.
24:012:001 Righteous art thou, O lord, when I
plead with thee: yet let me
talk
with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the
way of the
wicked
prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very
treacherously?
24:012:002 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have
taken root: they grow,
yea,
they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their
mouth, and
far
from their reins.
24:012:003 But thou, O lord, knowest me:
thou hast seen me, and tried
mine
heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for
the
slaughter,
and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
24:012:004 How long shall the land mourn, and the
herbs of every field
wither,
for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the
beasts
are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He
shall
not see our last end.


